The annual salary of independent directors is generally between 5 5- 10/00000. Independent directors don't get paid, but give consulting fees once a year, which is actually an annual salary in disguise. The remuneration of independent directors is not stipulated by the state, and it belongs to the scope of research and decision of the board of directors. How much to give, when to give, when to cancel or reduce are all decided by the board of directors.
Alberto Togni, who retired from Swiss bank and served as an independent director of Bank of China, earned an annual salary of 65,438+0,008.5438+0,000 yuan. Anthony Liang, a former chairman of the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission, is now an international advisory committee of the CSRC with an annual salary of 725,000 yuan. But don't get me wrong, not every independent director of a listed company can get that much salary.
Among the 5,593 independent directors incompletely counted in Financial Weekly, hundreds of independent directors receive less than 1 ,000 yuan from listed companies every year, while Chen Saizhi, an independent director of Fangzhi Technology, only gets 1, 300 yuan every year. Salary not only varies from person to person, but also the listed industry. According to the statistics of Financial Weekly, the average salary of each independent director position of GEM listed companies is 3 1548 yuan/year, while the main board is 63,508 yuan/year, which is more than twice that of each independent director position on GEM.
Exaggerated salary appears in large state-owned banks and resource companies, while the salary of almost every independent director in the four major banks of workers, peasants and China Construction exceeds 400 thousand yuan/year. Alberto Togni's annual salary is the most representative example. The salary is more than one million, and the salary is only one thousand. The number of independent directors is small. Only 5,593 natural persons in all A-share listed companies hold 7,595 independent directors of 2,285 listed companies.
Qualifications of independent directors:
According to Article 2 of the Guiding Opinions on Establishing an Independent Director System in Listed Companies, an independent director shall meet the following basic conditions:
(1) Being qualified as a director of a listed company in accordance with laws, administrative regulations and other relevant provisions.
(2) Having the independence required by this guidance.
(three) have the basic knowledge of the operation of listed companies, familiar with the relevant laws, administrative regulations, rules and regulations.
(4) Having at least five years of legal, economic or other work experience necessary for performing the duties of an independent director.
(5) Other conditions stipulated in the company's articles of association.